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Nes Ziona’s new star guard Lindell Wigginton comes on board with The Sports Rabbi to discuss his young career to date, growing up in Nova Scotia, playing at Iowa State and then for the G-League Wolves, what it means to represent his province and country of Canada. Make sure to watch Lindell [Read More]

Below is a full translation of Omri Casspi’s official statement to the Basketball Winner League Administration I will begin as I did in our private meeting with the League and the Health Ministry – it’s important to speak properly to one another because at the end of the day we all love, [Read More]

Hapoel Beer Sheva’s new guard Amir Bell joins The Sports Rabbi to talk about his career to date including his time at Princeton with HBS captain Spencer Weisz, former NBA star Kerry Kittles influence as well as his time in Italy and Malaysia. Lukas Feldhaus also comes on board to give us the [Read More]

Maccabi Haifa held their press conference ahead of the resumption of the 2019/20 season as Head Coach Daniel Seoane, Captain Willy Workman and CEO Assaf Rosenblatt. Coach Daniel Seoane opened the proceedings, “We know all of the guys really well and it will be tough to build something new in 20 [Read More]

Hapoel Eilat held a press conference to look ahead at the resumption of the Israel Basketball League’s resumption later in June. Coach Arik Alfasi, Captain Avi Ben Chimol and Chairman Tal Pinchas. Arik Alfasi began by talking about returning to the hardwood, “It’s exciting to get back. When [Read More]

Cor-J Cox joins The Sports Rabbi to talk about not being able to play professional basketball in Israel due to his citizenship situation. Cox is married to his Israeli wife Meital and the couple have a child but the interior ministry won’t grant the North Carolina native citizenship in order [Read More]

By Clemente Lisi, Special to The Sports Rabbi – Originally published on ReligionUnplugged.com NEW YORK — Drew Kennedy still remembers when he arrived in Israel back in 1989 to play pro basketball. “There were a lot of people in my family and friends who questioned my decision,” recalled [Read More]

Hapoel Holon held a press conference this afternoon to discuss the state of their team as the Israel Winner League resumes play later this month to finish off the 2019/20 campaign. Chairman Eitan Lanciano, acting head coach Amit Sherf, captain Shlomi Harush and CEO RoyDvora addressed the media [Read More]

Nes Ziona held a press conference about the resumption of the 2019/20 Israel Basketball Winner League seasons later in June. Chairman Yaniv Mizrahi, Head Coach Nadav Zilberstein and Captain Tal Dunne were present to answer questions via Zoom from the local journalists. “We are very happy that we [Read More]

Hapoel Beer Sheva held a press conference to discuss the resumption of the 2019/20 season via Zoom with Head Coach Rami Hadar, guard Adi Cohen Saban and CEO Tomer Yaron. Rami Hadar began by talking abut getting back to work, “We began practicing on Monday and all of our players are currently in [Read More]